scandinavian grace: fine design with tre...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, food, gifts, home, kitchen, scandinavian, shops, snacks, treats, williamsburg on 04 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments
earlier this year, on a side street quite close to one of the best blocks on park slope’s 5th avenue, a little home design shop opened up.  and while 5th avenue does have a lot of great shops – other than matter which is a bit high end and esoteric – there are no real home stores...
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mxyplyzyk: consistently fun, modern and ...

Posted by cherrypatter in gifts, home, kitchen, manhattan, shops, toys, west village on 04 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment
to get the best pulse on what is cool and fun and modern, and for gifts for young and old, i always go to mxyplyzyk.   while i am not really a fan of the service (they have gotten a bit too fancy for their britches) the quality and range of what they have is excellent.  their curatorial skills are...
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the brooklyn kitchen: much more than a s...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, kitchen, shops, super useful, vintage, williamsburg on 04 8th, 2009 | No Comments
as a physical store, the brooklyn kitchen is not exactly wow material and so it was kind of hard to understand what all the hype has been about.  however, as i spent a little more time there and understood more what the store is about, it is much more than the stuff in the store.  with a great...
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saipua: lovely scents in fresh and waxy ...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, flowers, home, red hook, shops on 04 1st, 2009 | 5 Comments
really, even before sarah ryhanen of saipua became a beloved guest blogger on design*sponge, i had been an ardent fan of this great store.  and now that we get to see more of sarah’s amazing personality through her weekly column  weeder’s digest (such a great name — i still cannot...
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apartment 48 home design...

Posted by cherrypatter in chelsea, gifts, home, kids, kitchen, manhattan, shops on 03 18th, 2009 | No Comments
it is amazing, but new york seems to have an endless supply of really excellent, really small and pretty affordable home stores scattered throughout the city.   one of my favorite finds recently, which is not a find to many who are much more in the know in the design world, is apartment 48.  there...
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hasker: always good design, always affor...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, carroll gardens, gifts, home, shops on 03 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
before we lived in brooklyn and i knew anything about smith street, for some reason j, infant k and i had about an hour to kill before needing to venture back to the upper east side. trudging along carroll garden’s main shopping drag, hoping to make headway on my christmas shopping list, i was...
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home chelsea home...

Posted by cherrypatter in chelsea, furniture, gifts, home, manhattan, shops on 02 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
until my recent tour up ninth avenue, i hadn’t really thought of chelsea as a home shopping destination, but between 19th and 21st streets, there are three excellent options for all sorts of home goodies.  the first shop pictured above, nest interiors, is the most modern with lots of dark polished...
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hable construction: patterns, textures a...

Posted by cherrypatter in gifts, home, manhattan, shops, west village on 01 27th, 2009 | 3 Comments
hable construction is one of the great small stores around.  well, hable is really an innovative textile design firm that is well-known for its beautiful modern designs.  their printed fabric is available around the country, and they also sell a variety of home items made out of cotton,  linen,...
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layla: endless iterations of luxury...

Posted by cherrypatter in boerum hill, brooklyn, gifts, home, jewelry, shops, womens' clothes on 01 20th, 2009 | No Comments
the little shop layla just off the main drag of atlantic avenue in boerum hill boasts the most exquisite jewel tones in all its pillows, sheets, duvets, blankets and other linens. many of the goods come from india and europe, and the choices are wide-ranging in high quality cottons and silks.  ...
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dreams in design...

Posted by cherrypatter in kids on 01 15th, 2009 | No Comments
  as usual, i have been coveting something for quite a long time, and while i am still not ready to actually move forward and purchase these gorgeous sheets, i am close.   i have decided that i will wait till s. is big enough to move into a big boy bed (maybe sometime this year) and that will then...
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